vicereine

American  

[vahys-reyn] / ˈvaɪs reɪn /

noun

1. the wife of a viceroy.

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vicereine British  

/ ˌvaɪsˈreɪn /

noun

1. the wife of a viceroy

2. a female viceroy

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Etymology

Origin of vicereine

1815–25; < French, equivalent to vice- vice- + reine queen < Latin rēgīna ( rēg-, stem of rēx king + -īna feminine noun suffix)

Example Sentences

This time she is a publishing vicereine with a field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco.

From Time Magazine Archive

The missionaries were invited to visit the viceroy and vicereine at their royal residence, and received their visits in return.

From Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission by Eddy, Daniel C.

But Gigi's stalwart Carolina Maddalena continued to rule as vicereine in the kitchen.

From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry

The lady heard that her sister, then vicereine of India, was about to have a child, and in February, 1897, a son was born to Lord Elgin.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

This was due to the Countess of Chinchon, vicereine of Peru.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine